| Description |
196 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Plume book." |
| Summary |
Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious eight-grader who craved the attention her workaholic parents couldn't give her. "Mark" seemed to understand her; he told her she was smart and wonderful. When they set a date to finally meet while Katie was in Texas for a swim competition, she walked into a hotel room and discovered who, and what, her cyber soul mate really was. In Katie.com, Tarbox, now eighteen tells her story, a frightening and eyeopening tale of one teenager's descent into the seductive world of the Internet. Tarbox;s harrowing experience with her online boyfriend would affect her life for years to come and result in her becoming the first "unnamed minor" to test a federal law enacted to protect kids from online sexual predators. |
| Contents |
Me, before -- My family -- Him -- Us -- Happy holidays - Apart -- Together -- Slut -- Victim -- Escape -- Guilty -- Me, again -- Epilogue -- Suggestions for protecting your child. |
| Subject |
Tarbox, Katherine.
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Child molesters -- Connecticut -- New Canaan.
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Pedophilia -- Connecticut -- New Canaan.
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Internet and teenagers -- Connecticut -- New Canaan -- Case studies.
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Teenage girls -- Connecticut -- New Canaan -- Biography.
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Sexually abused teenagers -- Connecticut -- New Canaan -- Biography.
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| Added Title |
Katie |
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Katie dot com |
| ISBN |
0452282535 paperback $12.00 |
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